Posted by Scott Dodd in Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming
Sometimes in New York, you get surrounded by steel and glass and brick and brownstone and it's easy to forgot that you live on an island -- and not a particularly big island at that.Then it pours for one afternoon...
Posted by Scott Dodd in Solving Global Warming
The snake discovered recently by scientists in Colombia was huge: as long as a school bus and heavy as a small car. Its remains, now being studied at the University of Florida, are about as long as a T-rex...
Posted by Scott Dodd in Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming
Everyone seems to be having fun reading the revamped whitehouse.gov website today and seeing what it says about their top priorities.After writing about the challenges of communicating smart growth earlier today, I was curious what the new Obama administration would...
Posted by Scott Dodd in Curbing Pollution , Solving Global Warming
Crossing the Triborough Bridge last night on the way home from LaGuardia airport, I smiled as my cab passed under a giant banner trumpeting today's renaming of the bridge in honor of Robert F. Kennedy. RFK is one of my...
Posted by Scott Dodd in Solving Global Warming
It all starts with a basket of coal.That's one of the first things you see when you walk into the American Museum of Natural History's ambitious new exhibition on global warming. Climate Change: The Threat to Life and a New...
Posted by Scott Dodd in Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
The president of South Korea biked to work today. Nearly 30,000 cyclists took to the streets of Taiwan's capital. European cities asked their residents to keep cars parked for the good of the planet. A European Commission spokeswoman says that...
Posted by Scott Dodd in Health and the Environment , Solving Global Warming
Two years ago, while taking a year off to get a master’s degree at Columbia University (yeah, some "year off"), I took a fascinating class on the public health impacts of climate change -- a rapidly emerging field that’s just...
